JAY CRITCHLEY
CONCEPTUAL, MULTIMEDIA, PERFORMANCE ARTist AND WRITER

Jay Critchley’s visual, conceptual and performance work and environmental activism have traversed the globe, showing and/or performing in Argentina, Japan, England, Holland, Germany, Columbia and the United States.  He has received extensive media coverage for his public proposals and interventions. In 2018 Jay gave a TEDx Talk: Portrait of the Artist as a Corporation. Jay lives in Provincetown, Cape Cod, MA. read more...
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JAY CRITCHLEY, INC.​ exhibition PRINT catalog

 PictureThe Bible, Peat & Potatoes project, showing at Provincetown Art Association and Museum (through May 8); Irish potatoes and potato skins, Irish peat, mixed media, 2021.

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​UPCOMING EVENTS
​May 20-June 25, Introducing Michael J. Andrews, co-curated by Jay Critchley & Berta Walker, Berta Walker Gallery
June 7-16, The Prayer Ribbons Return to Orlando City Hall for the commemoration of the Pulse Nightclub Massacre
​June 15-19, CHEEKY - NFT-DANCE, Provincetown International Film Festival
​June 24-July 13, Baby Boomers Exhibit, Amp Gallery
​July 9, Bound East for Easter Rebellion, written by Jay Critchley, International Conference on Eugene O’Neill, Suffolk University, Boston
​Sept 10, 35th Provincetown Swim for Life & Paddler Flotilla
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​PAST EVENTS
​March 22, 2022, Visiting Artists at Montserrat College of Art
March, 2022, Valor, Ukraine video 
November 2021, Institute of Sociometry Fair, exhibition and performance, Globeville Center 
FALL 2021, FEVER DREAMS installation video, Provincetown, MA
​June 18, 2021, PROVINCETOWN 2020 – 36 SOLAR LIGHTS, Provincetown International Film Festival
May 28, 2021: Democracy of the Land: Viral Warming 2020, AMP Gallery, Provincetown
​The Great Wonder, Dublin IRE, Sculpture Competition (long-listed) 2020
39th Annual Re-Rooters Day Ceremony January 7, 2022 Provincetown Harbor
RECENT MEDIA
Re-Rooters Day carries extra significance following year colored by COVID-19, January 7, 2021
​Covid Masks Among Discards at Annual Re-Rooters Day Event, January 10, 2022
Viral Walking, Provincetown Arts, 2021-2022
Last Day First Day, 2021, page 17, 2021
Jun 15, 2021 - Miss Tampon Liberty, Discard Studies
June 9, 2021 - AN EXTRACTION EPIDEMIC, Provincetown Magazine
May 26, 2021 - THE ART OF COVID Jay Critchley’s Banner Year, Provincetown Independent
May 12, 2021 - At Home in Jay Critchley's Cesspool, Provincetown Independent
2021 -  A Conversation with Jay Critchley, Sculpture Magazine
After potato submission, artist Jay Critchley eyes new projects in ancestral lands, Provincetown Banner, March 7, 2021
The Great Wonder, Inside Ireland, January 29 2021
The Whiteness House, buildingprovincetown2020.org, January 28, 2021
38th Re-Rooters Day Ceremony Front Page Cape Cod Times, January 8, 2021
Democracy of the Land - The Moo Moo World, Provincetown Arts Magazine 2020
Provincetown Artist Jay Critchley's 'Whiteness House" sends message of race ahead of election
​Cape Cod arts: White House as art plus virtual song
​People of Colors vs. Th​e Whiteness House